How do you make friends online these days?This is not a thinly veiled gay thread, I'm genuinely asking. We all know the internet fucking sucks now with there only being like 5 sites and every community requiring you to sign up to either a subreddit or a discord. My group online is slowly dying and it's been the same group for the last 12 years, I haven't properly made friends online since then really. It used to be:>meet someone in a game, add them on teamspeak or skype, become friendsthis has been ruined by crossplay and even the most social games now being void of VC as everyone opts for discord groups>join a forumremaining forums are either too niche with tiny communities, paywalled or dead>just join a discord server/subredditThese are either full of obnoxious trannies, groomers, children, mind-broken losers obsessed with the aforementioned trannies and politics, all while being wrapped up in weird parasocial hierarchies controlled by mods hellbent on making every interaction as much of a chore as possible>get a life and make friends irli'm doing this too but i work from home and spend too much time online out of necessity, it would be nice to have people to shoot the shit with or play games with>make your own website on the indiewebdid this, it's just silo'd nerds who don't actually want to interactit was easy back in the day because everyone online had a similar background, you can bet if you met someone in a thread who was friendly with you they probably had similar interests in technology, games, music, etc. and a certain sense of humour. Nowadays there's too many people online and it's fucking bizzare to join a discord group only to be met by 40 year divorced meth users, literal children, eboys, wannabe influencers sharing their whole lives and candidates for a chris hansen intervention where the fuck are the normal people
>>35096750I been playing gw2 spvp and between the arena and the queve it's such a small community you see the same people over and over again and I'm starting to actually develop organic friendships. I think putting yourself in a scene is the best way. For example I used to be deep in the hxc scene in my city. Naturally you get access to all kinds of people and a lot of females are in the scene as well. In this way it's not a direct like "we r here to b friends" but an activity that's adjacent that u are participating individually as well as together at the same time if that makes sense
meetup.com or whatever it ismake your own group, use subreddits to advertise but when you meet in person keep in mind that this filters out a lot of people chronically online, you don't have to interact with a good 80% of the losers irljust go and do stuff for a hobby, actually>where the fuck are the normal peoplethere are next to none, once you understand that there are only people that you can tolerate being around and those you cannot it makes things 10x easier in the grand scheme of things. actions speak louder than words so they say and you want to put yourself around people that make efforts and do actual things compared to people that leave you hanging or constantly disappointed. having that is genuinely worse than just being alone.
It's a gamble and random, usually you find something overlapping or of interest with the other, then it's also that they are chill n easygoing, not super cooked and getting offended randomly. Though these are just occasional conversation buddies, not people you'd have a lotta regular interaction with. So IRL is where you find sthn more serious idk (since online is usually international or long distance anyway)
>>35096750>This is not a thinly veiled gay threadFirst rule of thinly veiled gay thread - don't mention that it's a thinly veiled gay thread.You.. Faaailed.
>>35096750Why would you want to make friends online? It's not that great.
